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James Finley - Thomas Merton Salute for Merton Centennial, an excerpt from Morgan Atkinson's film, "The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton"

Opening conference benediction by Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D. at the 15th General Meeting of the ITMS, held at St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, June 16, 2017.

Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., former president of St. Bonaventure University, offers an opening blessing to the 2017 International Thomas Merton Society conference.

Fr. Bryan Massingale interview at the 2015 General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society at Bellarmine University.

Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about his plenary presentation on Thomas Merton and racial justice at the 2015 General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society at Bellarmine University. Interviewed and filmed by Robert Grip.

Reading notes by Thomas Merton (pages 18-19 from Reading Notebook 37) for Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks.

1969-11-04: Telegram from Ethel Kennedy to Fr. Dan Walsh

Ethel Kennedy expresses her regrets that she will not be able to attend the inauguration of the Thomas Merton Studies Center at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky. She notes the importance of Merton for her and for her husband, the late Bobby Kennedy.

1968-06-22: Letter to Ethel Kennedy from Thomas Merton after the assassination of Robert Kennedy

Thomas Merton offers Ethel Kennedy condolences following the assassination of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy. Merton encloses what he describes as a "rather touching letter from a total stranger in Brazil. Merton expresses shock regarding "Bobby's tragic immolation" and the hope for the country and for peace lost in his passing. Merton references their mutual friend, Fr. Dan Walsh.